Free & Open Source Systems Management.

Spacewalk is an open source Linux systems management solution. Spacewalk is the upstream
community project from which the Red Hat Satellite product is derived. What are the differences
between Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite?

Software Content Management

Spacewalk manages software content updates for Red Hat derived distributions such as
Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, within your firewall. You can stage software
content through different environments, managing the deployment of updates to
systems
and allowing you to view at which update level any given system is at across your
deployment. A central web interface allows viewing of systems, their associated
software update status, and initiating update actions.

Additional Management Capabilities

Spacewalk also provides provisioning capabilities, allowing you to manage your
systems throughout their lifecycle. Via Provisioning, Spacewalk enables you to
kickstart provision systems and manage and deploy configuration files. Spacewalk
also has virtualization
capabilities to enable you to provision, control, manage, and monitor virtual KVM
and Xen guests.

Providing Content to Geographically-Distributed Systems

Part of the Spacewalk project is the Spacewalk Proxy, the upstream of the Red Hat
Satellite Proxy product. Multiple Spacewalk Proxies can connect to a central
Spacewalk server and cache and distribute content from the Spacewalk Server in
various geographical
locations, reducing the load on the central server and improving download times for
local systems.

An Open Community Project

Spacewalk is an open community project. Anyone can contribute to the project,
including lending a hand with ideas, feedback, contributing a patch, helping draft
documentation, sharing your systems management use cases, or even testing. Sign up
for our
mailing list or join our IRC channel and say hello!

What can Spacewalk do?

Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution that allows you to: